Evaluating bias of Illumina-based bacterial 16S rRNA gene profiles

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 80, Issue 18, 2014, Pages 5717-5722

  Kennedy, Katherine ^a   Hall, Michael W ^a   Lynch, Michael D J ^a   Moreno Hagelsieb, Gabriel ^b   Neufeld, Josh D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENES; MICROORGANISMS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SURVEYS;

ALPHA AND BETA DIVERSITIES; MASSIVELY PARALLEL SEQUENCING; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; MOLECULAR SURVEYS; NEXT-GENERATION SEQUENCING; REPRODUCIBILITIES; SAMPLE PREPARATION; SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS;

RNA;

BACTERIUM; DNA; DNA FINGERPRINTING; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA;

RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; FECES; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; MICROBIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; RNA GENE; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL BIAS;

BACTERIA; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FECES; GENES, RRNA; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84906330281     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01451-14     Document Type: Article

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